IDT 516 Final Project Proposal
For this project I will use social media or another medium to host a testing ground for sports officials. I plan to create quizs that basketball and football officials can take on their smart phone or other kinds of device. These test will be centered around learning and mastering the rules of either game because the officials association I'm affiliated with now doesn't have testing options for officials.
In officiating it is important to learn the rules of the the games and to understand how to administer them. My goal would be to create a blog style forum through twitter or another social media source, to connect officials to have a place to take quiz's and have conversations via forum style platforms. The trick is going to be figuring out how to get the quiz 's to their smart phones and creating feedback and results that would benefit those involved in the process.
Maybe a blind results page on twitter that shows the statistics of those who participated would be ideal. I just need to figure out how to involve officials and not embarrass those who may not know the rules as well.
This will be a good project to showcase both instructional technology, and also tie into your sports expertise. I would like to know which specific social media tools you will use.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking twitter would be ideal. Tricky but ideal.
ReplyDeleteQuintin I think your idea is fascinating and I like that you are sensitive to the needs of your officials needing to grow and not be embarassed about not necessarily knowing the rules that you are trying to reinforce to make them better. I never would have thought of using social media for this type of training. I used kahoot with high school students in the classroom the other day and I like that the kids can be anonymous if they want to by setting up nicknames. That would work for you if you had all the people you were trying to train in the same place at the same time. Good luck with the training quiz. Cheers, Heather
ReplyDeleteQuintin I think your idea is fascinating and I like that you are sensitive to the needs of your officials needing to grow and not be embarassed about not necessarily knowing the rules that you are trying to reinforce to make them better. I never would have thought of using social media for this type of training. I used kahoot with high school students in the classroom the other day and I like that the kids can be anonymous if they want to by setting up nicknames. That would work for you if you had all the people you were trying to train in the same place at the same time. Good luck with the training quiz. Cheers, Heather
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